Comparison: Gulliver’s Travels & Animal Farm
Comparison: Gulliver’s Travels & Animal Farm
Comparing these two novels is far from hard. There is one main similarity between the two, which any sharp person can pick out after reading the two books, between the lines. I will follow on later explaining this parallelism, but before that I will list down a few facts about the two books.
Animal Farm is my post-nineteen hundreds book written by George Orwell. The book is about, in a brief description, a group of animals, from Manor Farm, take on a dream unfulfilled by a pig who was looked on as being the ‘wise pig’ in their own society. This dream is to revolt against the human’s rule over all animals. They are successful in doing this and create their own ideal society. Run by the pigs, they choose that everything and everyone should be equal and should never follow out actions that humans would do in their everyday lives. The people of the society (all animals apart from pigs) start to notice that even their leaders cannot abide by all the rules they write, and from then on the story kicks off. In between the lines, there is a subject of communism, which is not the subject we are looking to match with Gulliver’s Travels, but it is what this subject belongs to on a macro scale…politics. I can say that the basis of Animal Farm’s satirising is communism, because each animal represents a individual in the communist party. For example, the pigs are the actual party, the dogs that protect them are the KGB or secret police in other words, and the rest of the animals are obviously the people.
Gulliver’s Travels is my preceding 1900’s book written by Jonathan Swift. It is a satire on the pride and folly of the human race. Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon, is stranded on the island of Liliput, where is taken prisoner by six-inch tall inhabitants. Then he goes to Brobdingag, a kingdom of giants. In each land that Gulliver visits, there is a different ironic comparison to English or European politics and philosophy. Lilliput, book 1, is a rich satire of the English politics of Swift’s time. The small, but extremely immoral, Lilliputians represent the Whig party of England, whose vicious foreign policy and accusations of treason against members of the Tory party Swift despised. The small size of the Lilliputians is in inverse proportion...